WAR IN SPAIN

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20278, 21 August 1937, Page 7

WAR IN SPAIN

A TOWN ON EIRE. | GROWTH OF DISSENSION. | AN ANTI-SUBMARINE FLOTILLA. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. MADRID. Aug. 20. Artillery and machine-gun lire behind the rebels’ lines at Saragossa indicates that dissension is growing. Loyalist airmen report that the rebels batteries are firing to the rear I instead of to the front. j Mutinous Spaniards are reported to be ! firing on Germans and Italians as tin’ j result cf the submarine war against the Government. CAPTURE INEVITABLE. THE FIGHT FOR SANTANDER. SUCCESS OF INSURGENTS, COMPLETENESS OF COLLAPSE. I United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrtgtit. BILBAO. August 10. ' j Ruin and low clouds have Impeded aviation on the Santander front. The insurgents to-day look advantage oi j the lull in tiie Beinosu -sector to clean jup tiie "pocket” between the two roads. In which seven Government battalions are reported to have been cut off. Some of these troops are pulling up a tight but others arc surreuI dering without resistance, j A telegram from SI. Jean de Luz j says the French Consul and members j of"the French and Belgian colony have arrived there from Santander. They state that the capturo of that city is considered to be Inevitable, and the peo.ple are intensely pessimistic. From Salamanca it is reported that il is officially estimated that 10,000 ' Government troops have been cut off, captured or killed in the southern pari 1 of the Santander province. Thousands I of prisoners have been placed in concentration camps. The insurgents say they are surprised at the completeness of the collapse, and they are driving their adj | vantage home.

• ATTACKS BY SUBMAKLNES. ) IN TURKISH WATERS. 1 1 BELIEVED TO BE ITALIAN. ’ REFUSAL TO LEAVE HARBOUR. 3 Uni mi Tress ,\ssn.— Elec. Tel. Copyright * (Received August 21. 1.30 p.m.) CONSTANZA, August 20. After a -scries of lorpev» attacks in the Aegean Sea. the crew of the British tanker Miriam, which was laden with poind for the Spanish Government, refused to leave Ihe harbour. I The President, Kama I Ataturk, and i Ministers abandoned the army manI oeuvres in Eastern Thrace and hastened ' thither. They consider that mysterious submarines are shelling vessels in Turkish waters. 3 Meanwhile Signor Begonia. Spanish . Charge d'Affaires, warns Yalencia- . bound vessels from South Bussia not _ to venture outside tho Dardanelles. It Is believed here that the sub--1 marine activities in the Aegean Sea are being conducted under the aegis of Italy, which, if not actually furnishing submarines, has provided one of the Dodecanese Islands us a base.